The Difference Between Insect Disasters
Among all the geniuses, Vizi was one of the least conspicuous.
Her executive father actually wasn't all that "high-ranking." In the Molt people's consortium, there were tens of thousands of executives like him. They couldn't participate in top-level decision-making and were, at most, equivalent to highly paid wage earners.
Moreover, the Molt people had a very weak concept of family ties. Even though her executive father dearly loved his youngest daughter, he wouldn't do anything against his own interests for her sake.
Regardless, this was still High Engineer's attempt to pry the Molt people's corner loose.
Having Vizi contact her father had also been deliberate.
Her father was quite clever as well. He didn't try to find out the origins of the "mysterious interstellar force" that had rescued her. Instead, he first asked about Vizi's safety. Only after confirming that she was safe did he begin contacting the faction and engaging in some simple cooperation with them. For example, High Engineer possessed a large amount of high-grade energy ore that the Molt people desperately needed.
Achieving "energy independence" was not the same as achieving "battlefield energy independence."
After their logistics had been devoured by the bugs, the Molt people were now in urgent need of this kind of "battlefield resource."
As a consortium skilled at producing "civilian mechs" and "civilian machinery," they also possessed a large amount of "mechanical equipment" that High Engineer needed, such as the simplest "planetary transformation modules."
Although he could manufacture the things himself, producing such large, bare-bones equipment with a "starport" would indeed clog up production capacity.
With that time, couldn't they produce something else instead?
Since both sides needed what the other had, their cooperation was established very quickly.
Even though the other side knew perfectly well that only